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M. Anthony Harris Just keep pushing forward and write. The more of a habit you make it, the less you'll face the block. Making it into a daily ritual rewires how your mind works.
M. Anthony Harris Usually a question pops in my mind and I want to see where the answer will take me. More often than not it's a completely ridiculous question, but I get to find the answer along the way as I write.
M. Anthony Harris Stop letting everything else but writing get in the way and start putting your words on paper! (Or the computer screen.)
M. Anthony Harris A YA high fantasy novel called 'The Name Of Magic,' that's in the vein of Sabriel by Garth Nix set in a country analogous to ancient China.

It's about an poor girl with a large family whom she helps to provide for who gets offered the chance to study at the Imperial Academy for mages. Along the way she discovers the source of the magic in their world and befriends him while getting drawn into a larger conspiracy that threatens to unleash an ancient banished evil back into the world.
M. Anthony Harris I was thinking about spy craft and the term 'sleeper agent' popped into my mind, and I thought to myself, 'what would happen if the agent was actually asleep while spying?' And the rest is history.

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